Keep up to date with our latest news and read the growth stories of some of our investments in Angola, DRC Congo and Uganda.
In an article about the finance deficit for African SMEs, the French newspaper le Figaro writes about fund managers addressing the issue. "The dimension of the small enterprise (Zuri, red.) really changed from 2021 thanks to two loans totalling US$ 800,000 from XSML Capital", according to le Figaro.
“You want to start a business, but unfortunately banks are not the best to take that type of risk if there’s no collateral," says Gisela van Houcke, founder of Zuri, one of XSML's investees.
Our colleague Gildas Mouelle in Angola shared his investment experience and rebuts some misconceptions about doing business in Africa in conversation with Africa Tech Talks. "In SME finance everything starts with the entrepreneur's capacity to grow the business."
XSML Capital is pleased to have won the first Special Consideration Award at the Africa Impact Investment Awards 2023. The awards have been introduced by Krutham (previously Intellidex) to boost the profile of impact investing in Africa.
BIO, Belgium's development bank, shared the story of how one of the women entrepreneurs in our portfolio, founded her company. Sibyl set up DPXL, a company in Kinshasa that specialises in designing and producing urban signs and billboards.
What does it take to succeed in frontier markets? Barthout van Slingelandt, managing partner of XSML Capital, talks to Impact Investor about investing where most investors stay away.